gdm 2.24.0

[Jan Rekorajski]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jan Rekorajski wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> 
> > Still, the recommended way to start gdm is using upstart or inittab as
> > xorg needs to be started after all ttys are up. We can work around
> > that for years but we're the only distro to run gdm this way.
> 
> That was invented 9 years ago, and I don't really remember why :(

Ah, I remembered where {xdm,kdm,gdm}.init came from.
It was invented for X servers, a REAL X servers that do not have their
own display but serve X sessions to other machines. It was later
bastardized with KDM and GDM as a way to start local X session.

So, the proper solution is to add a no-display/tcp/xdmcp gdm config to
gdm-init and scream in post that this script is not intended for
starting local X server/X session (use /etc/inittab instead).

Janek
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